Wednesday, July 31, 2013

KINGSLEY FLOOD STEPS ONTO NATIONAL STAGE AT NEWPORT FOLK FEST

"WE WERE GOBSMACKED" – AMERICAN SONGWRITER

"SPECIAL PROPS" - BILLBOARD

Kingsley Flood kicked off the Newport Folk Festival on the
Fort Stage (the fest's largest) in a set captured by NPR Music.

Paste Magazine's Dacey Orr had named them one of ten bands
to catch at Newport, saying, "This hardworking band is rapidly making an
impression nationally. Their recent album 'Battles' holds several tracks that
translate into rowdy on-stage anthems."

Rolling Stone's James Joiner said, "Kingsley Flood
kicked off the main stage, shirking the rain with puddle-splashing,
foot-stomping folk rock and their signature high energy."

Billboard's Devon Maloney wrote, "Special props ought
to be given to a pre-rain, fest-opening set by energetic Boston mainstays
Kingsley Flood."

American Songwriter's Sean Maloney testified, "We had
never heard these guys before but we were gobsmacked – GOBSMACKED – by the
Boston band’s soulful, folk rockin’ shimmy on the Fort Stage. We heard echoes
of X’s sun-scorched punk, moments of Muscle Shoals groove and some gnarly fuzz
bass, which was the last thing we thought we would hear at a folk festival. It
was great way to kick off our fest and their new album Battles made a great
soundtrack for the ride home."

Pigeons & Planes blog called the set "a great live
show," continuing that they "did not disappoint… At turns riotous
folk rock, at others pastoral stillness, the overarching theme is their
infinitely palpable passion."

Their hometown press echoed these sentiments. The Boston
Globe offered, "Kingsley Flood played a triumphant set on the Fort Stage
Friday afternoon, alternating between heart-on-sleeve ballads and all-out
rockers."

DigBoston said, "For KF I saw more enthusiasm than I
saw at a bunch of the much bigger acts… when they left the stage I immediately
missed them."